9 Feb 2015 - In a "stories page" on the Butterfly Website, a writer describes seeing, as a 10 year-old "a huge moth flapping it wings against the window, trying to get into the building. Having developed a great interest in moths, I had learned much, and instantly knew this moth was a foreign, exotic visitor known as Thysania agrippina." He recounts the pursuit of the moth, from a diner to the street and back again. He concludes: "... I saw something useful and unusual about capturing the world's largest moth in Colorado Springs, several thousand miles away from its normal home in Brazil." So far as I know, this would be the northernmost record for this 11 inch T. agrippina, in the collection of John Hetzler.
Interestingly, the same page has an entry from Mario C. Callegari of Iquitos Peru, about eating insects to survive. The white witch is not mentioned. This HAS to be the same Mario Callegari credited with the largest white witch recorded (though the source for this is a Russian natural history blog that I can't evaluate). -DLC
Interestingly, the same page has an entry from Mario C. Callegari of Iquitos Peru, about eating insects to survive. The white witch is not mentioned. This HAS to be the same Mario Callegari credited with the largest white witch recorded (though the source for this is a Russian natural history blog that I can't evaluate). -DLC